Submitted on behalf of customer:
With the continued increase of scripts / plugins for PlayOn
programming choices, the list of scripts/plugins to scroll through on our
televisions is becoming longer and longer to select a programming choice
especially if the script/plugin that we wish to watch is closer to the
bottom of the list (on our television / DLNA devices). I believe we need to
somehow categorize the choices and/or place the choice titles in multiple
columns. This could be listed as text or as a small or large ICON. Of
course, final decision always lies in the hands of you guys, the PlayOn
software engineers / developers, who will create the final design.
Additional explanation of above suggestion:
Allow us to categorize programming. Essentially each LUA script and/or
plugin could be placed in a folder of our choosing and that folder could be
accessed through PlayOn from our televisions through our DLNA devices when
selecting programming to watch. Whether that folder is inside of the
C:\Program Files\MediaMall\plugins directory or somewhere else is more of a
PlayOn developer design decision. In either case, the list of options
starts with a category listing which we select first, additional
subcategories may also be listed if the user has folders inside the main
category folder. The PlayOn script or plugin would then be placed inside
the final category / subcategory folder.
Example category directory / folder listing:
L---plugins
+---Animation
+---Comedy
+---Education
+---Entertainment
+---Family
│ L---Movies
+---Fitness
+---International
│ +---Chinese
│ +---Korean
│ L---Spanish
+---Kids
+---Live Programming
+---Movies
+---Music
+---News
+---People
+---Religion
+---Sports
+---Technology
+---Television
L---Web
The PlayOn software would need to traverse the directory structure to
display these categories / subcategies in order to obtain and display the
plugins/scripts inside each of these. With this type of a category
structure, the list of options is much smaller to scroll through. Of
course, the user (and their families, friends, etc.) would need to remember
where the scripts/plugins were placed.
